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As of his one-year anniversary as Pontiff last week, Pope Francis has made quite the case for himself as the right man for the Catholic Church’s CEO job.

Named Time’s Person of the Year in 2013, Pope Francis is a symbol, yes. But he’s more than that. He’s forging a new path for the Church, in the same way a CEO would for a floundering company.

A CEO has four main jobs:

Set strategy for the company.

Create the right company culture.

Build the right team.

Allocate capital optimally.

Pope Francis is doing each of these things in his own way. And he’s getting results.

Setting strategy

It was clear from the beginning that Pope Francis was going a different direction. Instead of keeping his distance and declaring policy from his proverbial throne, his strategy involves delivering a strong personal touch and bringing the Church closer to the people. You could say he is “re-focusing on the customer.” He does things like:

A CEO should ensure his or her company is pursuing its mission statement full force. Pope Francis is establishing a new Church culture by communicating his values clearly, especially the value, “Actions speak louder than words.” For Pope Francis, it’s not enough to just pontificate about moral values. Instead, he focuses on loving others – the Church’s mission – by doing things like:

A good CEO knows that the right people – that is, those who agree with the mission statement and can help the organization accomplish said mission – are crucial to a company’s success. Pope Francis seems to have launched a campaign to upend the Church’s existing “management team” by:

Pope Francis has made it no secret that he believes the Church should first and foremost help the poor. He leads a notoriously humble lifestyle: he doesn’t live in the papal apartments, takes public transportation, and doesn’t wear the usual lavish trimmings of the Pope. He’s also calling out the excesses of the Vatican by:

Furthermore, by many accounts, Catholicism seems to be enjoying a revival in Europe. According to CBSCBS, Pope Francis’ weekly appearances draw more people than ever to St. Peter’s Square, and priests are seeing more parishioners in the pews for mass. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, called it the “Pope Francis effect.”

There are naysayers, of course, as witnessed in a CNN.com opinion by Laurence England. Not everyone is enchanted with the Pope’s bluntness and his propensity for giving offense to even the “papacy’s biggest supporters.”

But when you’re ushering in the winds of change – or in this case, the typhoons of change – it’s natural to break a lot of glass. One thing is for sure – Pope Francis apparently recognizes the truth of the Einstein saying,“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” And he’s not only brought a different way of thinking, he’s also taken action … just as a good CEO would.

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I agree wholeheartedly with this statement: “when you’re ushering in the winds of change – or in this case, the typhoons of change – it’s natural to break a lot of glass. One thing is for sure – Pope Francis apparently recognizes the truth of the Einstein saying, ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’” What is the biggest problem facing humanity at the current time, and what is the Pope doing about it? The biggest problem is that we are on the verge of another dark ages, brought about by permanent gold backwardation caused by the secret corruption of the Jesuits. Fortunately, the coalition to combat this corruption has come about. The fact that Forbes is publishing this article is but one indicator that this power transition model is on track: http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/02/18/sdrs-and-the-new-bretton-woods-part-six/comment-page-1/#comment-584 other indicators: 1) the firings of Eric Holder and Julia Pierson 2) the formation of the BRICS coalition (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), with many other countries in the wings. 3) the claims for restitution of gold and art in the Global Debt Facility that the Knights of Malta are trying to steal from humanity.

I for one anxiously await the crumbling of the Catholic church foundations, and satanic worship, sacrifices etc., and it archaic belief that, “the Pope, somehow owns all souls”, “all property”. The Vatican is responsible for more division, more wars, slavery, bondage of humans, death and disease, economic kayos, under the quise of “being a representative of Jesus on Earth” than any other group on the face of the earth. If Pope François is the wonderful Pope Forbes makes him to be , the pope would immediately dismantle those secret societies, freemasons, P2 Lodge, Knights of Malta, etc. that the Jesuits have coopted, and used to run the Vatican’s corruption of people and governments for their own greed and enslavement of Humans. This “Great” CEO would tear down the “City of London” financial centers, owned by the Vatican and release humanity from the economic bondage, slavery, they have put on countries in the form of state capture. Kevin Arnett, and his common Law courts would make a far better CEO for groups representing religious concepts to help humanity

This does not sound like a places of worship. It is a company. Who would worship a company? Who would believe in worshipping a company? Why would you worship a company? Looking up the history of this company, why would anyone support a company like this? I think would be stupid to worship a company.

Hi Rick, thank you for your comment. I’m sorry you didn’t like my analogy likening the Church to a company, and the Pope to leading a turnaround of that company. The analogy either works or doesn’t work, and it clearly didn’t work for you. Duly noted.

Maryling, maybe your analogy worked a little too well, did you consider that? Of course, I know you can’t say anything bad about the church, except the mainstream “bad things” they did (ie. protecting child molesters and rapists – except you have to call it “sex scandal”). The fact is, these people are megalomaniacs and psychopaths, running a huge, HUGE, HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE corporation.

This article is downright ludicrous! The writer is obviously clueless to what she is talking about or something worse. I suggest the writer research deeply into the Vatican’s real history which is criminally horrific to say the least!

Dear Mr. Sosa, I’m sorry you didn’t like the article. I simply wanted to compare the Catholic Church to a company in real need of a turnaround, a term we use in business to denote an organization that has been struggling. Commenting on the long history of the Vatican or making any political or religious statements about the rightness or wrongness of the church was not my aim. It was definitely a risky article to write, and I see that the risk did not pay off with you. Thank you for commenting.

Hi Maryling, I think you write wonderfully, yet the cabal owned media, the Forbes dying dinosaur as well, and forbes being the glamor girl darling of their economic propaganda machine, will not serve your career well. Your editors would never allow your truth in research of the Vatican’s role to enslave humanity for the past 2000 years be published as the Forbes/ Nor would they let you publish how St Augustine wrote the script to crate Islam, to have a natural enemy for the Jews. Yet, here we are a time of truth, darkness fades. The Forbes family lick to boots of the Vatican for their own benefits, at the expense of truth, and the continuation of human enslavement. You are at a moral dilemma now, is it more important for you to have the “Forbes satanic” on your resume, or are you a real journalist questing for the truth, reporting and supporting Humanity in its higher evolution.You as a person must decide which side you will serve, the prestige of working for a company supporting Humanities enslavement or the truth and Humanities evolution to a better world. I think you will make a right choice.